The Dog Shack is a Northern California based dog rescue group that finds loving homes for dogs on death row in over-crowded kill shelters.

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Hello All,

I know it’s been several years but I wanted to let you know Bailey is doing great. He is 9 years old (time really flies) and healthy.

And even after the 8 years we’ve had him he continues to make progress with the reactivity. The latest milestone is being able to remain calm when encountering a dog jogging with its person; just in the last six months he’s been able to do that–as long as he’s got enough space.

The last couple of years we have been training in nose work, which he loves. In nose work the dogs learn to identify & locate certain odors (birch, anise & clove) hidden somewhere in an area. It’s a fun activity for us. We take classes regularly and we have competed in some trials; Bailey has a couple of titles.

The Dog Shack is a Northern California based dog rescue group that finds loving homes for dogs on death row in over-crowded kill shelters. We strive to provide emergency, temporary, and permanent caring homes in order to avoid euthanasia and give these loving animals a second chance at life.

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The Dog Shack Philosophy…

Dogshack believes that if a little network of kind, dog-loving and dog-competent people would form this kind of safety-net around an animal control facility near you, so many more soulful brown eyes would continue to sparkle with the gift of life, and look at you adoringly! What better reward, for really not so much trouble, as many hands make the work light! If you seriously consider doing this, we will be glad to tell you what we have learned over the past 10 years of fostering and emergency rescue! Of course the same can be done for kitty-cats...or bunnies...or what ever people have decided to breed for pets and then abandon!